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I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.
I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.
I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.
The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.
Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources that we have available to us.
America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path...
Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind myself, "Two and two still make four, and you can't keep humankind down for long."
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government
Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
Society can progress if men's labors show a profit - if they yield more than is put in. To produce at a loss must leave less for all to share.
Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it...Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom.
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.
Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.